 II have read books enough, and observed and conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in my time ; but I assure you I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated men and women, when exerting the spirit of...  The American Monthly Magazine - Sivu 3781838Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1917 - 454 sivua
...peasantry, which without doubt suggested to him the following words : ' I have read books enough and have observed and conversed with enough of eminent and...gentle heroism under difficulties and afflictions, or when speaking their own simple thoughts as to circumstances in the lot of their friends and neighbours,... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey, Robert Sangster Rait - 1920 - 432 sivua
...the virtues of the Scottish peasantry, which without doubt suggested to him the following words : " I have read books enough, and observed and " conversed...the lips of " poor uneducated men and women, when exert" ing the spirit of severe yet gentle heroism under Chapter " difficulties and afflictions, or... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 390 sivua
...too apt to measure things by some reference to literature. " I have read books enough," said Scott, " and observed and conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds ; but I assure you, I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated men and women,... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 392 sivua
...too apt to measure things by some reference to literature. " I have read books enough," said Scott, " and observed and conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds ; but I assure you, I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated men and women,... | |
 | John Morley - 1923 - 450 sivua
...too apt to measure things by some reference to literature. ' I have read books enough,' said Scott, ' and observed and conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds ; but I assure you, I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated men and women,... | |
 | Renate Mace - 1987 - 306 sivua
...die ungebildete Unterschicht zum literarischen Medium tragischer und erhabener Welterfahrung machte: "'I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated men and women. . . than I ever met with out of the pages of the Bible'".31 Damit durchbricht Scott nachhaltiger als... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - 1998 - 132 sivua
...a story against himself when Scott reproved him for an apparently condescending remark and said, "I have read books enough, and observed and conversed...sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated men and women ... than I have ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible." Scott's first biographer, George... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - 2003 - 372 sivua
...poacher. He told Lockhart that although he had conversed with many eminent and cultivated minds, he had heard "higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated men and women" than he had "ever met with out of the pages of the Bible." 8 But, a contradiction within a contradiction,... | |
 | 1839 - 424 sivua
...has been happy enough to have known any portion of the religious poor, will respond to it too. " I have read books enough, and observed and conversed...cultivated minds, too, in my time. But I assure you, that I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated men and women, when exerting the... | |
 | 1888 - 626 sivua
...as the results of daily experience amply and at times disastrously prove. EDUCATION OF THE HEART. I have read books enough, and observed and conversed...cultivated minds, too, in my time ; but, I assure yon, I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor, uneducated men and women, when exerting... | |
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